The Stepmother (31 page)
Authors: Claire Seeber
24 Hours
Lullaby
Bad Friends
Never Tell
Fragile Minds
I
’d like
to thank my sister Tiggy Whitham for her feedback; Verl Dowling for just being Verl and also reading the first draft; Gabrielle Chant for her scrupulous copy-editing, which was invaluable. As ever, great thanks to Keshini Naidoo, for being a great editor and a good friend.
I’d also like to thank Kim Nash, Natasha Hodgson and Oliver Rhodes at Bookouture, as well as the Bookouture authors for their help, friendship and jokes. Huge thanks to all the hard-working bloggers who review so tirelessly for us all.
Finally, thank you to those wily crime writers who know who they are - for making me laugh daily and always lending support, knowledge & occasionally vodka (only when desperate, of course).
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ISBN: 978-1-78681-049-6